Can't get an HP 8200 Elite Small Form Factor to boot from USB.
(MP8200 Elite SFF PC)
BIOS version: J01 v02.15
ME Firmware version 7.1.3.1053
Tried on two different computers, with same BIOS version ...

We have a 6-drive RAID-6 on one of our servers. Each drive is a 750GB Seagate, and they are connected with Hardware RAID card 3ware 9650SE. We do not have sparse drives. The system is old and probably ...

In order to see approximate speeds for tarballing an entire system, and then restoring that system when if it was foobar'd, I partially cloned one of our primary systems onto a workstation that, while ...

So, I've hit a bit of a wall with the HP Proliant Microserver N40L. I'm trying to install a new hard drive, 4 TB, but it's not being detected by the BIOS and thus, not the OS either. It just spins up, ...

I have an HP Proliant DL360 gen8 server that seems to have USB turned off in the BIOS. I would like to enable it again.
With the USB turned off, I cannot intervene during POST - the USB keyboard does ...

What are the options for having remote control via network of a computer even down to the "bios" level. I've seen Dell's DRAC / Out-of-band management that they have for their servers, and typically ...

I'm trying to install Solaris 11.1 on a Supermicro SYS-1027GR-TR2 from the LiveDVD. It is not on Oracle's HCL but it is on Supermicro's Solaris 11.1 supported list.
At the beginning of LiveDVD boot, ...

Just updated the BIOS of two Supermicro 1022G-URFs to R3.5.
They've both the mainboard H8DGU-F with two onboard Intel 82576 NICs.
One of the two Supermicros doesn't have any visible NICs at all after ...

I'm considering to build a server using the Supermicro X10SLL-F board with a Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU. However, according to my research, this CPU requires a BIOS update (unfortunately Supermicro does not ...

We recently acquired a HP DL 585 G6, fully populated with SAS drives etc, we want to use a PCIe SSD and have brought an Asus RIADR Pcie SSD however the bios fails to recognize this, can anyone suggest ...

I have an HP raid controller that tries to run ORCA while the motherboard is running its BIOS startup sequence. When a drive is connected, the BIOS freezes and beeps sequentially.
When F8 is pressed ...

I have a linux server that has a 3ware controller 9650SE-4LPML connected.
Today, I migrated this server with all its disks and raid controller to a new motherboard + cpu + ram (gpu is also changed).
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I've a Supermicro server, out of warranty, and it suicided in the last month. Yes, exactly. During a AMIBIOS update process the BIOS Watchdog has been tripped and the motherboard reseted during the ...

I've got a Barebone-Server with the Supermicro 5015A-EHF-D525 Mainboard.
Now I urgently need to update the BIOS to the newest version. Too bad I've never done that before and google isn't much help ...

We have a used dell r710 system that will boot randomly , about 30% of the time. The rest of the time (warm boot or cold boot), the system hangs at the dell bios screen, with the white progress bar ...

We have a HP Proliant DL360P with one Intel Xeon e5-2650, and we was in need to use two Xeon e5-2670 V2, this server by default this G8 did not recognizes the v2 processor, so we found this procedure ...

During updating bios to the new version (1.18) i got an error that computer can't read rom file. Then after reboot server did not start. Actually it starts but does not show anything, screen is blank, ...

I work with Adaptec cards on a regular basis; 2405, 5405, 6405e, 6805, and a few others.
I am dismayed by the BIOS' terseness and lack of any utility at all.
I can set card setting toggles; but the ...

I need help to boot to BIOS for my IBM System X3400 M3. What I know is pressing F12 to boot to BIOS. But every time I presses F12 it never go to BIOS. Instead it boots to my ESXi. UEFI is very slow.
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I currently have a system with 25 hard drives - 24 for data and one for OS.
This machine is built on a budget, featuring a cheap Gigabyte motherboard (GA-990FXA-D3), a four port LSI SAS controller, a ...

I have a Server 2012 R2 machine acting as a domain controller in a test environment.
It had to be restarted, and now, when attempting to log in as the domain administrator, I get the error message: ...

I have a Dell PowerEdge R720xd that gets stuck in the BIOS when booting. It successfully gets past the "configuring memory" and "configuring iDRAC" screens, but once it shows the "CPLD version : 103" ...

I tried to update the BIOS from my HP DL160G6's. Unfortunately the Windows update degraded my BIOS version from 243 to 237. But when I try to upgrade both servers to version the update fails.
First I ...